Sentences with phrase «practice of confession»

The Catholic practice of confession and absolution is in one of its aspects little more than a systematic method of keeping healthy - mindedness on top.

Historically this has taken shape in the intervention of ecclesiastical leaders as mediators in conflicts and through the practice of confession and penance in the aftermath of conflict.

Again, the practice of confession might be a good place to start.

In the pathos of these remarks, Cox and Rogers were trying to find a language that has begun to vanish along with the practice of confession.

By the revival of religious emotions, by surrender to God, by commitment to an unselfish life of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, by a renewal of the practice of confession and by the sharing of religious experiences, by reliance upon divine guidance and by a revivification of first - century immediacy and spirituality, it proposes, and claims to solve, the problems of the religious crisis in a practical manner.

Penance Services were introduced in recent decades to emphasise the communal aspects of sin and the ecclesial dimension of the sacramental life, and also as a way to reintroduce large numbers of people to the practice of confession.

Telling the truth is the practice of confession.

The complete decay of the practice of confession in Anglo - Saxon communities is a little hard to account for.

State Rep. Drew Springer (R), who had not endorsed either candidate, said that the «ad released by Senator Craig Estes mocking the Catholic faith and the practice of confession was over the line,» and said that Estes should «take his fight outside of the Church, take down the ad and apologize.»